AI OD: A farewell to Jason Yeager - VIDEOS

March 06th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Contestants, Alumni, News and Gossip

In AOL’s interview with Jason Yeager, the Branson performer struggled with how to interpret his elimination. On the one hand, he feels that the lack of screen instance he got prior to America voting (said screen instance being essentially zero minutes and zero seconds) hurt his ability to associate. On the other hand, his son’s first words to him moments after his elimination were “I love you dad and I’m proud of you.”

As usual, those contestants who get very little

screen date do seem more prone to early eliminations (see Garrett Haley and Colton Berry), but Jason floped to associate with a contemporary audience with his overly dramatized tacky performances. Those kinds of theatrics play very well to the midwest Branson, MO crowd, but not so much on the intimate stage and television cameras of the American Idol machine.

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